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NHK Hiroshima Broadcasting Station

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The NHK Hiroshima Broadcasting Station (NHK広島放送局, NHK Hiroshima Hoso Kyoku) is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in Hiroshima Prefecture. It is the head NHK station for the Chugoku region.

History

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The station was created on July 6, 1928,[1] using the call sign JOFK and was promoted to a Central Radio Station on May 16, 1934.[citation needed]

It was heavily damaged due to the atomic bombs on August 6, 1945. The building was destroyed and 36 of its staff were killed by the blast. A member of the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Station was attempting to receive further details, fifteen minutes after the blast, the station was unconcactable. Surviving staff members gathered at a nearby station in Hara (now Gion) and resumed broadcasting the following day from an extra room available there.[2][3] Broadcasts were reinstated on a definitive basis on August 29.[3] NHK Radio 2 (JOFB) started broadcasting on September 10, 1945.[1]

NHK General Television broadcasts (JOFK-TV) started on March 21, 1956, and Educational Television broadcasts (JOFB-TV) on January 8, 1961. FM test broadcasts (JOFK-FM) were conducted on September 17, 1962, becoming regular two years later. On October 1, 1964, NHK General's Hiroshima station started color broadcasts[4] and NHK Educational followed on March 20, 1966.[5] Analog TV broadcasts finished on July 24, 2011.

Status of the NHK Hiroshima building at the time of the atomic bomb and aftermath

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References

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  1. ^ a b ラジオ局開局順位一覧(AM・県域FM)
  2. ^ 白井久夫『幻の声—NHK広島8月6日』Iwanami Shinsho、1992年7月20日、ISBN 9784004302360
  3. ^ a b "「原爆投下直後の放送」奮闘録 NHK技手・故森川さんの日記公開". Chugoku Shimbunヒロシマ平和メディアセンター. 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  4. ^ NHK Yearbook, 1965, p.5; p.36
  5. ^ NHK Yearbook, 1966, p.50
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